God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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